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England's leading creative writing charity for young people

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Residential

Summer 2021 residential highlights: another digital success

6 October 2021 //  by First Story

Our annual summer residential programme is usually hosted at Lumb Bank, Arvon's idyllic venue in rural West Yorkshire. The pandemic kept us away for a second consecutive year. But after last year's …

Category: Alumni, News, Residential

Summer 2020 Virtual Residential

29 September 2020 //  by First Story

Our annual summer residential programme provides an incredible opportunity for a small number of First Story participants who've shown great promise during the academic year, to further develop their …

Category: Alumni, News, Residential

The First Story Summer Residential 2019

30 August 2019 //  by First Story

In twenty acres of steep woodland overlooking a Pennine valley sits Lumb Bank, an impressive eighteenth-century millowner's house that once belonged to Ted Hughes. For six days in July, Lumb Bank was …

Category: News, Residential

The First Story Residential Anthology 2016

13 October 2016 //  by First Story

The First Story Residential Anthology 2016 has arrived! And it’s crammed full of the thoughts and voices of forty-seven students inspired by five glorious days of writing. For each student, the …

Category: Anthologies, Residential

The First Story Residential Anthology 2015

3 November 2015 //  by First Story

The First Story Residential Anthology 2015 has finally arrived. It is bursting with the voices of the amazing 78 students who spent a week writing on the First Story Summer Residential Course at …

Category: Anthologies, Residential

What’s it like at the Residential?

21 August 2015 //  by First Story

During our 2015 summer residential programme, at the Arvon centre in Shropshire, we interviewed First Story students about their experience of participating in the programme. They talked about the …

Category: News, Residential

The First Story Residential Anthology 2014

27 November 2014 //  by First Story

We are very proud to present the First Story Residential Anthology 2014. It has been carefully compiled from all the pieces our First Story students wrote and read out loud with such aplomb at …

Category: Anthologies, Residential

The First Story Summer Residential 2013

5 August 2013 //  by First Story

Nettlecombe Court, a 16th century estate on the fringes of Exmoor National Park, provided a spectacular setting for our summer residential in July. Sixty talented First Story students from …

Category: Residential

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